Description

TL 5666 REACH CHAPEL LANE (east side)

13/140 Manor House

II

Farmhouse, early C16 timber-framed hall and service end with cross-wing to north-east extended as kitchen wing in C17, and cased in small local brick with large side stack. Main range cased in local red brick and dressed limestone in early C18. Stair turret early C18. Roofs with pantiles and plain tiles later raised and rebuilt with corner hip. Two storeys. Facade to main range; central ridge stack, boarded eaves, brick plinth and band between floors, some re-used Barnack stone in right hand quoin. Three first floor four-paned hung sash windows and three similar ground floor windows, four to right hand with segmental brick arches. C19 six-panelled door and blocked door to left hand. Interior has relined inglenook hearths, exposed floor frames and C16 wall frame of internal truss. Window in rear wing with re-used C16 roll and hollow moulded wooden mullions. C18 closed string staircase with modern alterations. Bolection moulded chimney piece and panelling in first floor room.

RCHM. North-East Cambs, p.87, mon.16 Taylor C. The Cambridgeshire Landscape, p.236-8, 1973

Listing NGR: TL5660366320

External Links

• Wikidata Q26455980

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
• 
  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)